pothibo
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Comment · 9 years ago
ConvertKit (https://www.convertkit.com) | Senior Full-stack Rails Engineer | REMOTE
The engineers at ConvertKit are smart, highly motivated and highly productive developers who care greatly about the craft of coding. We champion learning, bettering ourselves, and teaching to the rest of the team.
About ConvertKit
* We are a fully remote company, scattered across 8 states and 4 countries.
* Bootstrapped, profitable, and growing very (very!) quickly. [1]
* We put a high emphasis on work / life balance, and we value and strive for 40 hour work weeks. There aren't set hours, but there's a lot to get done!
* We have a positive, vibrant, and genuine culture. [2]
* Working with Nathan Barry is super awesome!!
* You'll be part of our awesome engineering team, helping to build our product. We primarily use Rails, Mysql, Redis and Sidekiq to get the job done.
* We're facing real (fun) scaling challenges because of our incredible growth. Ideally you've been there, done that before.
* We're also looking for someone who cares deeply about writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and generally tends to leave code in a better state than when you encounter it.
* Significant (5+ years) full-stack Rails experience and scaling a Rails app for rapid growth.
* We don't have a separate infrastructure team. You must be comfortable with helping to run, scale, troubleshoot and maintain a large production app that sends 250+ Million emails a month.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's quite the cynical comment. I can only assume from your comment that you think this company doesn't deserve to have good news.
Some of us wants to have a future where electric car is the norm, rather than the exception and Tesla has arguably brought this possibility to our generation by itself.
I, for one, welcome this news and wish them the best.
Comment · 9 years ago
Element level selectors are so often demonized and having written quite a bit of CSS in my life, I have come to appreciate how easy it is to write and maintain CSS when you actually use those element level selectors mixed with relationship selectors ( >, +, ~,) and attribute selectors.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's still wrong. Using a <select> is still much easier than using React's implementation of it.
Comment · 10 years ago
Are you really comparing the linux TCP stack with an HTML select tag and justifying React through that comparison? Are you for real?
Comment · 10 years ago
It's 7$/month. You sure can be made uncomfortable easily.
If someone wants a private repo but doesn't value his/her private code to the amount of 7$/month for ALL their private repos, then I guess it shouldn't have been made private in the first place.
FWIW, a Big Mac combo is around the same price. One is junk, the other is where you showcase/store all your professionnal knowledge and experience.
Comment · 11 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV Might be worth a read. While it may not be up to par to your standard, it's one of the train system the most complex and speedy in the entire world.
Comment · 11 years ago
Not excuses, just maths. I'm not a US citizen. But I'm canadian. And my province has tried to get high speed train through the border, but the economics never added up.
That's the problem with N. America, airplanes are cheaper for our geographic situation. Because routes are not set in stone, they can be changed as the demand adjusts itself.
When you lay out train track, you can't change your mind in 20 years or you need to change your infrastructure.
Comment · 11 years ago
The difference is because in America, there's 2(3) countries. In Europe, you travel between ~10 countries. The budget/mentality is different since you operate in international level with international import/exports.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm sorry but I really don't agree with this. One of the point the OP made is that if you develop in SQLite and deploy on a Postgresql database, it means you discard all the features that postgresql has over SQLite (data types and SQL Queries for example).
You wouldn't test your Facebook consuming API code with a Twitter endpoint, why do you apply the same logic to your DBMS?
Comment · 11 years ago
I think where Google could build momentum is to try to go for a private ecosystem where everything you store (photos, notes, etc.) would be private. The facebook opposite.
That would be a solid alternative to Apple's ecosystem and you would see the benefits of going from Facebook to Google.
Google has a much better chance of competing against Apple's photo/notes/cloud services than it would beating Facebook. Also I believe there is going to be a tendency in the next few years to move out of Facebook because of the social network effect people want to get out of.
Google would be the only solid candidate for anyone not wanting to jump into Apple's products.